Sanctuary
"Bow down to the Lord Almighty Reaper, and repent for believing in a false god!" Lola threw her voice full force as she bursted through the doors of Sanctuary first. Made him look better. Today, he really wanted to use his 'Voice', to make sure his message came full across.
Digi was first by the doors bowing. Lola had already made him aware of the false god, and was easily ready to accept the real Korosensei. Others didn't know how to take it.
"You have all been led astray by the evil demon called Yanagisawa!" Lola bellowed to all of them. "For seven long years, your prophet has been freezing with Lady Aguri, waiting to re-emerge and take what is rightfully his again!"
Now some were starting to question, while others were trying to bow. Some clumsily while holding some groceries, which made some vegetables roll their way.
"See how nature must even bow to him!"
Yep, Lola was ace for this part. Veggie worship, he couldn't have done that with a straight face.
"I am the real one!" Yanagisawa as him came strolling out with the leaders. "How dare you try and imitate me! I should have you killed on the spot!"
"Lord Reaper came back from the dead because of Lady Aguri's love," Lola challenged him. "Behold! Lord Reaper can still do the same thing. Can the false god?"
Korosensei held up his tentacle and let the bond start to fall apart. "I am here for Sanctuary, but if it doesn't need me, then I don't need to exist anymore. What about you, Yanagisawa? Can you prove you aren't just using my shell?"
"True believers also remember Lord Reaper's one of a kind voice," Lola reminded them. "When he was here, he was benevolent and gentle. He was even a teacher to the Itty Bitties."
"He was a teacher to the Itty Bitties," Chou Chou in the shell of Aguri mocked her right before Yanagisawa slapped her.
"And never would Lord Reaper have laid a hand on his dear Lady Aguri!" Lola bellowed. "I am the Voice of God, and I speak the truth! You have been worshipping a false god for seven years."
Now more than half of the audience was starting to bow.
"It's just a trick," Yanagisawa insisted.
"Really?" Korosensei pulled all the pieces back to his tentacle. "Okay. Your turn then because I can perform this trick all day." He didn't really mean it was his turn. Instead he unbonded three of his tentacles, let their specks glide in the air toward Chou Chou still on the ground.
He solidified them and grabbed her right from the imposter's view. He pulled her close to him again. "You okay, Chou Chou?"
"Also not Lady Aguri, but an old student named Chou Chou trapped in shells to fool you into believing in the false god!" Lola bellowed toward everyone.
Now most of the Sanctuarians had found their way there, and nearly all of them were bowing. There was only one thing left. The ones behind Yanagisawa. "You guys only had step one with this false guy," Korosensei told them as he held a paper up in the air. "If you stay siding with him, I guess you'll never know any of the other steps. What are you going to do when you reach the other side of the moon?"
"Well, you stole my plans," Yanagisawa tried to blame him.
"Really? What color is the paper of your plans? And what is it, what's something simple about it to understand?" Korosensei urged. "Come on."
"He cannot, for he is a false god!" Lola bellowed as she pointed at him.
Yep, Yanagisawa was clearly angry and sweating, but he didn't turn a color.
"Why no change in color?" Korosensei pushed once more. Almost everyone was bowing now, and even more than half the leaders 'figured out the truth'. "If you're mad, then where is a change in color?"
"Shut up, you don't know what you're doing!"
Finally, all of the leaders had wrapped their tentacles around Yanagisawa. He tried to plead with them, but there wasn't much to be done. Korosensei didn't leave any room for doubt.
"Are you okay, Chou Chou?" he asked first. "Can you change back?"
"Yeah. I just have to concentrate." She fell out of the Aguri disguise into her original form and coloring. She had streaks of red on her face. Her real cephalopod tears that acted as paint. She hugged him.
"What are you doing?!" Yanagisawa complained to her.
Poor Chou Chou. "I'm sorry I never got you back to your parents." Instead, she had been stuck as Aguri. Even though Chou Chou had a strong personality, Yanagisawa was good at deception and being physically domineering and abusive. It looked like he could see the real her now. "Your welcome to stay at Sanctuary with us, and I won't hear of anyone else saying anything otherwise."
"The God of Death has spoken, all mercy must be shown to the young woman, Chou Chou! So be his word!" Lola bellowed. Everyone nodded while Yanagisawa was dragged away.
"You stupid, you can't, let go of me!" Yanagisawa was being a sore loser.
Korosensei watched him being dragged. He was no longer a threat. He didn't look pleased at all. Everyone was watching him. "Stop, do not take Yanagisawa away yet." Not this time.
He came back like a cancer that should have stayed in remission. He wouldn't risk letting him get away again. I don't know what to do with him right now, but I think I know where to place him. "Leaders. Followers. Fellow Sanctuarians. Follow me to Room 127. His fate will be sealed frozen for four years." Four years was decent, they probably had a decent amount done. "After that, then I want each of you to be a part of deciding his fate. Use how much love you have for me to be your guide. Also, if one of the things you want to do will kill him, make sure you do everything else first because he is the devil of Sanctuary and deserves no mercy."
"I don't love you at all, screw you!" Yanagisawa yelled at him. "I will never forgive you!"
"The Devil of Sanctuary!" Lola bellowed. "Let your love for those he had wronged help you decide of a fitting punishment for him."
5,000 punches before death probably wasn't what his faithful people would all choose.
He led the way to the frozen chamber and commanded he be thrown in.
He cursed toward Korosensei. "You are going to regret this, this is a trick!"
He already accused him of that.
"This is so stupid, it wasn't supposed to be this way! Why didn't you tell me you could unbond yourself?!"
Korosensei took a tentacle near where a neck would be and made a slashing motion. He already figured out that Yanagisawa's ultimate plan was probably messed up. That's the thing about Sanctuarians. They were crazy, and it made things like cohesive plans hard to make.
He watched as they threw him in. He cursed a small amount before he chattered, eventually didn't talk and froze. The door was closed, locked and flipped to four years.
Problem number one taken care of. Soon. "So, which one of you leaders want to tell me what actually happened with the freezing?"
"We messed up the programming and ran less solution running through the room for refreezing," one of them announced. "We planned on getting you out that night you escaped, but you had someone else aid you."
Many Sanctuarians were starting to throw around threats toward them.
"We are sorry, but we can't unfreeze quickly!" another leader said toward him, kneeling down. "Yanagisawa had the plans for part one, but nothing else, so we would never leave you there to rot."
Once again, many Sanctuarians were yelling and starting to throw things this time. They weren't happy that their Lord Reaper was useful for nothing but a guide to the leaders.
"Wait." Korosensei held out his tentacles. "They did what they could. Yanagisawa was dangerous. Now, Sanctuary is heading into trouble soon with the broadcast he had sent disguised as me. I need those same broadcast permissions. I need to make a different one."
"Please, Lord!" He heard a random Sancturian. "Please don't stir the humans more! They want to kill!"
"I know what they want," Korosensei answered back. "They think there are thousands of us that can blow up the Earth. If we make a similar broadcast, only a lot more . . . fake looking . . . clumsy, stupid and non-threatening, I think I can get Sanctuary in the clear again." Only he would be in trouble.
But he'd be leaving soon forever, so he would accept a torn reputation. He never had a good one anyhow. "I need paint, cardboard, and our best artists in the bunch."
With their speed and intelligence, it didn't take long. He had cut outs of Aguri and several leaders around the room that had been in the first video. Strategically placed as best as they could as cutouts.
Second. Korosensei had only the brilliant crew that were operating the cameras staying. "Good evening!" He waved at the camera. "It is me again, Korosensei! So? We are still missing a lot of things we need so I may have to put a little more-" He leaned against one of the cutouts. It fell sideways, showing it was a cutout. "Um? Let's all ignore that," he insisted as he started to do something he really didn't want to.
Normal people that didn't know a thing about octopi would pick it up, but there were so many experts in the government. The motion should prove one thing. He was falling into insanity.
He started to chew on his own tentacles briefly. Not fun, ow! He quit and then laughed very strangely, not his usual laugh. "This time, I wrote a list of the thousands of us that are clearly around here and that are going to blow up the Earth. Okay." He picked up some paper. "I need a rubber tire from a bicycle, 9,000 red balloons, four yummy pies that are blueberry, and of course, a hot air balloon." Then, he fell into a plop of jelly in front of the camera. "I hate it when I do that." He tried to reform himself. "The hot air balloon should be on top of Tokyo tower in no less than three days." He ate at his tentacles a little more one more time before the camera cut.
There. Hopefully, the world would think he was going nuts, there were no others like him, and the government would see that he could become a glob of just a jelly substance. They would see he was no threat. Hopefully.
All he could do was wait on that part, but it was the best he could do. Part two done. Last part. He had to work out the real details to the mission to make sure the shuttle made it to the dark side of the moon, and soon beyond.
As much as he could give. Their future beyond that was up to them.
He went to the office Yanagisawa had been using and started to draw up new plans while he was getting facts about what they had, and what they hadn't got.
Then Aguri and the girls showed up. Just, right there in his opened door. "Hello."
"I got unbroken crayons," Emiko said, showing him.
What? "What are you doing here?"
"You said wherever I wanted to go." She smiled. "We both know the chances. I'd rather be here with you and them."
Aguri. "I'm . . ." He gestured to the plans. "I'm not gonna be here long."
"That's okay, none of us are," she insisted as she let go of Emiko's hand. "Did you get a cell or are we just hanging out here?"
Emiko went over closer to him and showed him the unbroken crayons. "That's how it's done. Pick up and put them gently in the hand." She was just criticizing him still. "They are bigger crayons. More colorful crayons too."
"Crayons!"
Well. He wasn't planning on seeing any more firsts from Etsuko. "She speaks."
"She apparently repeats things said more than once," Aguri said. "She kept saying areyasure for at least two hours this way."
"Crayons, crayons, crayons," muttered Etsuko.
"Only in monster of the week form," Emiko said. "She'll have a whole vocab by the time she's one if she's like me. She won't be able to do much for a long time on the human side."
Korosensei came from behind his desk to the muttering 'crayons, crayons, crayons' Etsuko. He lifted her up.
"I don't know where you want all this baggage, Korosensei."
Korosensei looked over at Nagisa. "It was supposed to stay far away."
"That's not what you told me," Nagisa told him as he started putting down the baggage. "You're the one who said wherever Ms. Yukimura wanted to go." Yet, there was a small smirk. "I even asked several times if she was sure which made your youngest go crazy saying it over and over."
"Areyasure, areyasure, areyasure, crayons," Etsuko muttered.
"Now, I have a real problem," Nagisa warned him. "Here to there and here to there again is a lot of hours. I have class early tomorrow. So? I bought a ticket for home. You go ahead and take care of my car while I'm gone, okay?"
"Thanks," he said to him. There wasn't much else to say. The very people he left behind, showed up right behind him.
"Lord Reaper." Lola came toward his door. "Would you like me to show your family to their abode?"
Their abode. They are all doomed anyway. I guess, we can be doomed together. He noticed a smile on Nagisa's face.
"Good luck. I heard about the strange broadcast you gave. Maybe it'll lead to something good? See ya, Korosensei." He waved and then waved to Aguri and the girls.
Korosensei waved back. We're all going to die. I'm going to die. So, what's the difference? He gave Etsuko back to Aguri. "Let's go see our abode." Aguri made the choice. We'll stay together until the very end.
"My abode isn't far enough that I won't hear if the lord cries out from outside the cell," Lola insisted to him. "But, not inside. I won't hear screams or cries from inside. I am also available for babysitting whenever needed." She courteously bowed toward them.
Boy, she couldn't have made that more obvious. Which was great, he might use that advice later. For now, he snagged Emiko's new crayons and picked out the green color. "What's this one?"
"Can't you be normal for two seconds before going all teacher mode?" Emiko complained.
"What's a normal person do?" he asked her.
"I don't know, but I don't think it's quizzing a kid on colors," she said.
"Chou Chou is also safe on the corner," Lola added. "As per your instructions, all are making her feel welcome."
"Thanks, Lola," Korosensei thanked her. She bowed and left but he kept the new crayon out towards her. "This color?"
Emiko didn't say the color green. Instead she said, "Color, color, color, color, color, color, color red, color red, color blue, color blue-"
She was interrupted by Etsuko. "Color, color, color red, color red, color red, color blue, blue, color red, color red, color, color-"
Yikes. The fact Nagisa dealt with that for so long and still managed to smile? "Etsuko isn't giving you the answer. What's this color? It's the color of grass."
"Color of grass," Emiko remarked.
"What is the color of grass?" He tried again with the smart mouth.
She just pointed to the crayon and smirked.
"Green," Aguri said, coming to his rescue. "She knows it, we worked on it on the way over. She knows purple, orange, and black too."
"Yeah. I've conquered your teacher kidnergarten already," Emiko said boldly.
"Oh no. That was just the first step." He turned his tentacle into the letter A. "What's this letter?" He heard a groan from her.
"Sir?" A Sanctuarian came closer to the room. "Sorry, but there's a report over your report. They seemed to locate the location."
"Of course." The government already had it before. "What's the report?"
"They aren't sending any of the stuff to help you with the shuttle, but they are sending someone to negotiate?" They seemed confused. "Someone called Karasuma?"